Few random shots from my wonderings
Hugo Bossman
Motherbar (333)
Unknown off Brick Lane
Nazir Tanbouli
I have found a few extra little pockets of art around East London and will picture these v soon.
Any suggestions for good places to go in South London ya’l?
Above. Something really interesting in pretty much every piece I see from this guy, and he has something to say literally every time but I actually believe his sentiment when he put paint of a wall, unlike some others it feels genuine and with no little amount of humour as well.
The pieces I am sharing here show he likes to take a risk or two to get his point across, clearly he can not do this without his phlanax of people to find the settings and the subjects and then to get out without ended up banged up. The first piece I showed was his comment on the diamond trade in Johannesburg
The fact he is so prolific and that he has been all around the world suggests he must be making a pretty penny out of his artistic excursions. I do not mind that, some people have an issue but everyone has got to make ends meet.
So to Above’s work, but only one type, his use of words…
Berlin - Leave them artists alone
Berlin is not without amazing art, but the scale of this is brilliant, you can just make out a woman. Big can be beautiful
Cape Town - look Above
A commission by a fairtrade winery in SA
Miami - What a banker
This may be in Miami sunshine but it is a commentary on The Wall Street protests, the full piece reads… ‘Give a Wall St. Banker Enough Rope and He Will Hang Himself’. Like many of Above’s work this made the news across the US.
Hung up financially
Over to San Jose
Peru - What comes from there?
It is beautiful but also shining a light on what the country is famous for as well, plus the ‘O’s are windows which make it even better
Clever whore
Some simple Melbourne graf
Mexico.... on his way home
This was done in 2 hours with the last bits of paint left in his pots.
When you coming to London Above?
Full wall of monsters
Following my previous post this month on Nazir Tanbouli we saw that the man is trying to single-handedly turn a semi-deserted eye sore in East London into his very own canvas. I am loving this big dinosaurs with upside down heads and multiple eyes.
Dino-boarded up
The playful imagery is like a acid version of Jurassic Park.
Bird in prey
Fish walls
As always… not telling you exactly where it is…. but it is between Kingsland Road and Queensbridge Road
Latest version, this one by Team Robbo
Everyone has heard of Banksy, maybe not everyone has heard of Robbo. Robbo was in his words the original and a pioneer of the street art game. He tagged and painted his way around London in the 80’s before it was cool or indeed profitable to do so. After a while he retired, he made no money out of it and felt it was for the younger man.
A young Banksy met Robbo and they had a bit of set to and Robbo claims to have given him a slap.
Fast forward a few years and the grudge comes back when Banksy paints over an iconic Robbo piece with a workman putting up wall paper. Cue a long running, slightly petty, rather amusing, visually interesting tete a tete.
Click here for a run down of some of the shots
Get well soon anyway Robbo
On Saturday StandardFact took a bike ride along the canal to Camden, it was a lovely day and offered the chance to check out some pieces of art along the way. It is a lovely ride on the canal from Angel to Camden by the way…
I learned two things.
1. I don’t like Camden much at all
2. Everyone else in the world does
It was so busy and generally horrendous, Saturdays should never involve heading to Camden. If you only ever listen to one thing SF says then make it this…. Do not go to Camden on Saturday
I did however find some cool pieces which I will share now….
Kissable lips
Familiar image
anyone help with this one?
Fat mouth?
I like it… it is a big fat bald guy with Lean Body in his mouth… answers on a postcard.
Apologies for being lazy with my finds… I’ll pick the pace up next week ya’l
Nice lil addition to a Stik piece in Shoreditch…. almost looks like the character is peering down on the artist painting over his legs
Bit of Stik
I’d heard of the Artist Above before…. but a short post will not do the guy justice so take this as a mini-intro to a prolific artist who unlike so many has many many sides to his work, he can do political as well as Banksy, cartoon as well as Sweet Toof and word stencils to match Ben Eine.
This is a brilliant piece, I believe the story goes that he got permission to stencil ‘Diamonds are a Woman’s Best Friend’ on the wall outside Jewel City, Johannesburg’s center for diamond trading…. he then went back and added a little extra. Brilliant, beautiful and not a little bit dangerous I’d imagine.
Stay tuned for my full look at Above…. when I have time that is
And why I am at it…. Surely Kanye should get props for pointing this out as well. Soooo Kanye
A little of what you like....
Nazir Tanbouli is a resident of East London, he has worked here amongst his collective from 1995 so has probably see the changes to Whiston Road more than most.
Upstairs boarded up.... downstairs a little doodling
Recently Whiston Road saw a few pieces of new art to brighten up the slowly but surely closing housing estates. The estates are in disrepair and I can only imagine the council are ignoring them until the very last resident gives up the ghost and moves on. All around this area shiney new housing developments are going up. Makes you wonder where the people living there at the moment are going to go?
Bit blurry... but you get the idea
And another one....
Also makes you wonder where the local graf artists are going to to paint if everywhere is new and clean…. gentrification here we come, expect a Pret on Broadway Market in the next 6 months
Friends of StandardFact, the guys at id-iom clearly understand the huge cultural and musical importance of the great man. His drumming was second to none and he featured on numerous other artist’s albums because he was so good. Plus he dumped a wife by fax…. the man was always ahead of the curve.
Art + Phil Collins = Groovy
The idea behind this piece is to obviously bring the genius of Phil Collins to a wider audience, but additionally the guys were using a bit of a subtle mind trickery, by using the lyric of ‘When I’m feeling blue, all I have to do, is take a look at you, then I’m not so blue’ from the classic ‘A Groovy Kind of Love’ on a blue background they are planting the blue message in peoples minds, hopefully forever.
A vintage year
This little piece is in Brixton so I am imagining it will have the same effect on the number of sales from that area of PC purchases in a similar way that a certain chocolate bar did to ‘In the Air Tonight’
More from our id-iom friends very soon….
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